What is the ruling on complex conditional manumission tied to the manumission of slaves and the divorce/freedom of wives/maidservants?
Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others
Al-Mughni
Book of Divorce
Primary text
If a person links the divorce of wives or the freedom of maidservants to the manumission of a specific number of slaves using 'kullama,' the ruling follows the established principle for counting the conditions based on the stated number of manumissions. For example, if he frees four slaves following conditions tied to divorce of four wives, the number of wives divorced and subsequently freed applies. If he frees five slaves, differing views arise on the total number of maidservants freed, with the sounder view based on counting the new condition introduced by the fifth manumission without double-counting previously counted criteria.
Supporting text
On the first opinion regarding cumulative conditions, if five slaves are freed, fifteen maidservants are freed. On the second opinion, twenty-one maidservants are freed, as the fifth act of manumission introduces a new value (six) based on its relation to prior counts.